A recent Forbes magazine study ranks the greater Washington area as the second best city for technology jobs in the nation. Forbes conducted the study based on two-year and 10-year job growth numbers for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and tech jobs in the Washington area. Washington’s technology-related jobs grew by 20.6 percent since 2011 and [...]
TASC recently hosted four middle and high school teachers for a day long session with TASC executives and technology leaders, as part of George Washington University’s Teachers in Industry Project. The project gives teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the core knowledge and skills their students will need to be successful in the 21st [...]
Volunteer week runs from April 10-16 and to honor it, Raytheon employees are engaging in a variety of volunteer projects. The staff will participate in educating kids in the company’s sponsored science, technology, engineering and math program. Employees will also participate in armed services support and local community projects. Some of the local community projects [...]
Hazel Green High School in Huntsville, Ala., received 100 laptop computers as part of a new program to promote and enhance reading comprehension. The computers were donated in partnership by Lockheed Martin and NASA for Lockheed’s Outsourcing Desktop Initiative Program for NASA. Through Lockheed’s and NASA’s support of the ODIN program, 106,000 computers have been [...]
IT and communications firm Cisco announced it is teaming up with STEMNET, which promotes science and technology, to challenge students across the United Kingdom to create an online presence for the U.K. Paralympics team. Cisco is the official network infrastructure provider of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games to be held in London. Students, ages [...]
After an $828 million award from FAA to upgrade its air-traffic control systems, TASC plans to hire 1,200 employees this year and another 1,200-1,400 workers next year, The Washington Post reports. “It is, by definition, a limited pool of highly skilled people,” said Jim Lawler, chief human resources officer at TASC. These are the kinds [...]
Last April, President Obama issued a challenge to corporations and individuals: It’s time to reinvigorate America’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational enterprise. Looks like Walt Havenstein, SAIC’s new CEO, is picking up the torch. Just recently Havenstein told a paper in Huntsville, Ala., where SAIC employs 2,300: “STEM is a way of getting [...]
